1. I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me. - Usain Bolt 

2. Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. - Stephen Colbert 

3. No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. - Alfred North Whitehead 

4. Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had. - James Brown 

5. Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. - Dennis Prager 

6. I'm very thankful to be doing what I'm doing. I feel very blessed. - Justin Timberlake 

7. Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job. - Jim Lovell 

8. The first thing I do when I start my day is, I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God. Whenever I go outside of my house, the first thing I do is stop at the church. - Mark Wahlberg 

9. I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me. - Gabby Douglas 

10. It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks. - Christina Aguilera 

11. I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that. - LL Cool J 

12. I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man. - Gisele Bundchen 

13. I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career. - Nolan Ryan 

14. Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children. - Joyce Brothers 

15. Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed. - Boris Pasternak 

16. I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. - Kristin Armstrong 

17. Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith. - Ignatius of Antioch 

18. Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful. - William Feather 

19. Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody. - Rod Stewart

 20. By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived. - Brennan Manning 

21. I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled. - Paula Poundstone 

22. I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game. - Jerry Rice 

23. When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author. - Sherman Alexie 

24. Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? - Saint Basil 

25. Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. - Sarah Ban Breathnach 

26. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them. - Ronaldinho 

27. I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table. - Alton Brown 

28. Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved. - Vivien Leigh 

29. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr 

30. Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. - Karl Barth 

31. Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. - Charles Kuralt 

32. I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God. - Hakeem Olajuwon 

33. If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. - Henry B. Eyring 

34. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me. - Mariano Rivera 

35. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. - William Bennett 

36. I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste. - Srikumar Rao 

37. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. - Isaac Bashevis Singer 

38. A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 

39. I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people. - Channing Tatum 

40. I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned. - Enrique Iglesias 

41. Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. - Travis Barker 

42. The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen. - Simon Mainwaring 

43. Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. - Alan Cohen 

44. I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots. - Elayne Boosler 

45. The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world. - Ann Voskamp 

46. I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received. - Mario Balotelli 

47. I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it. - John Gresham Machen 

48. Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well. - Tom Felton 

49. God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. - Izaak Walton 

50. When you solve a problem, you ought to thank God and go on to the next one. - Dean Rusk 

51. I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility. - James McGreevey 

52. Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. - Tullian Tchividjian 

53. Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. - Edward Everett 

54. I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. - Jake Owen 

55. Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. - Jacques Maritain 

56. All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. - Daniel Defoe 

57. Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment. - Joseph Gordon-Levitt 

58. I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him. - Josh Turner 

59. Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers. - Deborah Norville 

60. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. - Algernon Charles Swinburne